The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-21

the proposed law. Here tho Hon.
Roger @. Mills has also well spoken,
as follows: "The only argument that
we have seen from the advocates oil
the liquor traffic is that 1t brings a
thousand or two of dollars to the
State treasury. We cannot see the
force of such an argument. just as
well might it be said that maiden
should sell her virtue or man his
honesty for gold or silver. The effect
of such reasoning is to make every
other constituent of government sec
ondary to money" This patriotic
and chivalric sentiment neither called
forth nor needed any apology.
The evil inflicted on the State and
society by the liquor traffic is incalcu-
liable; and yet some speakers of promi-
nencc are going before the people to
persuade them if possible that they
had better endure the unmeasured
evil of this traffic rather than abolish
it by their ballot. They would per-
suade them that the present restrained
perso"Nl liberty to buy, to sell, to
make, to drink Intoxicating liquor is
privilege high above all other con-
siderations, and the State and society
and home and peace and purity, every
thing, must yield to q corrupting traf
flc and vitiated appetite.
Mr.. Gibbs has said OF it: al am not
going to deny the countless evils OF
drunkenness, and few men can draw
moro heartrending pictures of its evils
than have seen.
Senator Coke said 81 yield to no
man greater detestation of the vices
and crimes of drunkenness than have
always felt"
Mr.. Mills has said Money cannot
pay the father for his anguish and Of
Fiction at seeing his sons as they grow
up wallowing in the mire of pollution
by the seduction Of legalized vice. !"
Mr.. Cochran said recently ga saloon
man signed the Ross avenue petition
against the opening of saloon on that
street because his family resided on
that street, and he did not want a sa-
loon in his neighborhood," and yet it
is understood that Gibbs and Mills
and Cochran are going to take the
stump in favor of the liquor traffic.
and endeavor to persuade the people
that the heart-rending pictures of
evil, the "vices and crimes of drunk
eness, " the "mire of paliation" are
not to be compared to the deprivation
which will result from the removal of
the liquor traffic beyond the borders
of the State.
Senator Bayard said few years ego:
al do not believe that any man has a
greater horror of intemperance than
/, end my appreciation of its dangers
and evil effects grows with my expe-
rience Of human affairs.
The bureau of statistics at WASH
ington says the "cost of liquor last
year reached $900000000." This
equals $12 to each man, woman and
child in the whole country. If Texas
has 100000 of population the people
of this State spent $24, 100000 for
liquor-one-half the cotton crop of
the State. What did the consumers of
liquor have to show on the LIST OF
January for this increased expend-
iture? Not so much as one
ragged straw hat in the
way of property, but plenty of red
noses, totteriHg limbs. bleared eyes,
wasted opportunities, broken homes,
stricken wives and starved children.
"And yet we have men in this State
who claim the right to foster this liq-
nor trafflc-this overshadowing curse
upon the hopes and homes of chris
tian citizenship" WHITE.